Necktie holder



April 14, 1931. s, WOQLLEY 1,800,921

NECKTIE HOLDER Filed Feb. 12, 1950 Patented Apr. 14, 1931 PATENT OFFICE ERNEST S. WOOLLEY, OF CHICAGO; ILLINOIS NECKTIE HoLnnn Application filed February 12, 1930. Serial No. 427,666.

This invention relates to a novel and improved necktie holder.

The main object of this invention is to pro vide a simple and inexpensive device which can be readily and removably attached to a collar for holding a necktie in the proper elevated position thereon. Another object of this invention is to provide necktie retaining means which contains resilient clasping means thereon, whereby it can be readily clasped in its operative position on a collar and can also be readily detached therefrom.

These and other objects and advantages are attained with this invention, as will become apparent from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is an elevational view showing my improved holder mounted in position on a collar for holding the necktie in its proper elevated position thereon.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the necktie holder.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view, taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical sectional view, taken on line 55 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is atop plan view showing the holder provided with a pin or peg to engage into the necktie.

In the drawing my invention is illustrated in connection with a well known type of turndown collar which includes a band 10 having its ends 11 and 12 overlapped and held together by a collar button 13,and from which band depends the down-turned outer part or flap 14 of the collar. A necktie 15, of the four-in-hand type, is. shown in position underneath the adjacent ends of flap 14, forward of the band ends 11 and 12; and the band or strap 16 of the necktie extends around collar band 10, beneath flap 14.

This improved and inexpensive necktie holder is provided for retaining the necktie in a properelevated position on the collar, and prevent it from sagging to an unsightly position thereon.

The drawing illustrates my necktie holder in its preferred form of construction, which comprises a main member or bar 20, the same being curved and being mounted to extend in a direction circumferential of the collar band, and so as to have its front and intermediate portion bear against the rear face of the upper part or looped part 15 of the necktie. Near each of its two ends this baris bent rearwards to provide an offset portion or shoulder 21, and to place the main intermediate portion of the bar forwardly so as to more effectively bear and press against the necktie and hold it firmly in its desired elevated position on the collar. Each end part is then bent downwards from said off-set portion thereby forming a depending finger 22, and the outer end portion is then curved and bent upwardly from said depending finger thereby forming an upstanding finger 23, said fingers providing looped means or clasping means at each end of the bar and integral therewith, for clasping therein the band part 10 of the collar and enabling this holder to be readily slid upwardly into position on the collar and to retain a firm grasp thereon.

The bar and its clasping means are made of resilient material, so that the same can be readily mounted in position on the collar and can also: be readily removed therefrom and at the same time will grasp it firmly to remain securely thereon.

a In Fig. 6 of the drawing I have shown this holder furthermore provided with a pin or peg 2a, which is preferably arranged to pro ject forwardly from the central part of the bar 20, to'engage or pierce into the rear portion of the upper looped part 15 of the necktie and thereby more positively preventing any sagging or downward sliding of the necktie on the holder and on the collar.

This invention thus provides a holder which is readily mounted on the collar and will hold the necktie in a proper elevated position thereon, and can also be readily removed; and this holder is so arranged that its main part of the bar is concealed behind the necktie, While the bar is of sufiicient length to have the V clasping means at its ends concealed underbear against the necktie and :hold it in an" elevated position on a collar, and resilient looped finger means on said means for clasping the collar:band and to enable con offset portion, forclasping on the collar band and to hold said bar offset forwardly from the band and press against the'rear of y the necktie, and pin means projecting forwardly from the bar'for engaging into the rear of the necktie to positively hold it in the selected position on the collar, the holder being concealed by the collar and the necktie.

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ERNEST S. WOOLLEY.

venient and quick mounting of said holder on the collar and removal therefrom.

L2. Ainecktie holder for holding a necktie in :anelevated position on a turn-down collar, said holder comprising a member to bear against the rearof the necktie and retain it in an elevatedtposition, and means on said member for readilyyand removably mounting it onzthe collar band,said holder being entirely concealedbysaidznecktie andcollar. I

3. A ne'cktieholder for holding a necktie the collar,-a rearwardly extending ofiset'portion ateach' end ofsaid bar, and looped clasping means ot resilient tmaterial including "a I finger depending 'from said offset por- V tioniand a finger'curved upwards from said in anelevatedposition on a turn-down col- #lar, said'holdercomprising a curved bar to .extend in a'dire'ction circumferentially of depending finger, for clasping the band of thecoll'ar between said:fingers and to pro- 'vide for ready mounting of: the holder on the collar 'andsfor ready removal therefrom,

said bar bearing against the rear upper partv concealed the collar and the necktie.

4. A- necktie holder comprising a bar,

"means on theven'ds of said bar :to enable ready mountingof the holderonxthe collar and ready removal therefrom, and pin means a; V projecting from the barfor engaging into the rear upper portion :of' the necktie, to hold collar. 7 V a 5.-A"h0lder for holdinga necktiein an looped clasping means depending from each of'the necktieto retain the same in an-ele- .vate'd positionand the entire holder being;

the neektie iin an elevated position on the g I elevated position on a turn-down collar, saidiholder comprising a curved bar to be ipl aced'ferwardly of: the collar band and in a direction extending longitudinally thereof, .there being I a rearwardly extending offset portion at each en'dvofsaidbar andresilient 

